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We read that such a man is magnetic, meaning that he can poll a great many votes; or that such a woman thrilled her audience, meaning probably that they were in an electric condition to be shocked by her. Now this is what we want to find out to know if persons are really magnetic or sympathetic, and how to tell whether a person is positive or negative. In politics we are quite at sea.
And I swear to you by God in Heaven to treat it as such." Everard was looking at him fixedly, but something of the strain went out of his look at the words. A gleam of relief crossed his face. "All right. I will confess to you," he said. "But I warn you beforehand, you'll be horribly shocked. And you won't feel like absolving me afterwards."
Though one of the gentry, who had it in his power to become a favorite, the manifest tyranny of Governor Berkeley so shocked his sense of right and justice, that he was ready to condemn the whole system of government.
"I suppose so," her mother answered. Then with a determined cheerfulness came the assertion, "Cousin Margaret is always very kind and thoughtful, you know, Jennie." There was a pause, broken at last by a mutinous "I don't think so, mother." "Why, Jennie!" "Well, I don't. She may be kind, but she isn't thoughtful." "Why, my daughter!" remonstrated the shocked mother again. "I 'm ashamed of you!"
The six years that followed Sir Nicholas' return and Hubert's departure for the North had passed uneventfully at Great Keynes. The old knight had been profoundly shocked that any Catholic, especially an agent so valuable as Mr.
It was a matter of days only until she sought him out and told him, in her mother's presence, that she believed she liked him better than her first father. "Honor, dear! You you mustn't, really " Mildred Lorimer insisted with herself on being shocked. "Don't you, Muzzie? Don't you like him better?" the child wanted persistently to know. "He was very nice, of course; I did like him awfully.
It never entered into her mind to doubt the truth of what Lady Cecilia had told her, and she had at first been so much embarrassed by the fear of betraying what she felt she ought not to feel, and she was now so shocked by what she thought his dishonourable conduct, that she repeated almost in a tone of severity "Certainly, Mr. Beauclerc, you ought to go."
Generally, you know, there are two candles left in the hall, you know; and if there are two, you know, I know of course that my father is still at the House. But last night, after that capital song you sang, hang me if I know what happened to me. I beg your pardon, sir, I'm shocked at having been so overtaken. Such a confounded thing doesn't happen to me once in ten years.
None the less, he held straight on his course; and the spinster ladies were a little shocked to observe that Lady Tristram's illness did not interfere at all with her son's courtship; people in that position of life were certainly curious. A new vexation had come upon him, the work of his pet aversions, the Gainsboroughs.
There was no memorandum of the taking on of such an impossible number of passengers. "The blueskins did it," said the chief executive of Weald. He was pale. All about Calhoun men looked sick and shocked and terrified. "It was the blueskins! We'll have to teach them a lesson!" Then he turned to Calhoun. "The volunteer who went on that ship he'll have to stay there, won't he?
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